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Restructuring and Impairment Charges

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2021

Restructuring and Impairment Charges

Restructuring and Impairment Charges

5. Restructuring and Impairment Charges

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company recorded $4 million and $374 million of pre-tax impairment and restructuring charges, respectively. For the three months ended June 30, 2021, these charges included pre-tax restructuring charges of $4 million primarily related to the Company’s Cost Smart program. For the six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company recorded impairment charges of $360 million related to held for sale treatment of net assets expected to be contributed to an unconsolidated joint venture in the third quarter of 2021, as described below, and pre-tax restructuring charges of $14 million primarily related to the Company’s Cost Smart program.

For the three months and six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded $11 million and $25 million of pre-tax restructuring and impairment charges. For the three months ended June 30, 2020, these charges included $6 million of pre-tax restructuring and impairment charges for the Company’s Cost Smart Cost of sales program, and $5 million of pre-tax restructuring and impairment charges for the Company’s Cost Smart selling, general, and administrative expense (“SG&A”) program. For the six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded $15 million of pre-tax restructuring and impairment charges related to its Cost Smart Cost of sales program, and $10 million of pre-tax restructuring and impairment charges related to its Cost Smart SG&A program.

Impairment Charges

On February 12, 2021, the Company signed an agreement with an affiliate of Grupo Arcor, an Argentine food company, to establish a joint venture to combine manufacturing operations in Argentina in order to sell value-added ingredients to customers in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The joint venture will be 51% owned by Grupo Arcor and 49% owned by Ingredion. The joint venture will operate five manufacturing facilities that produce value-added ingredients including glucose syrups, maltose, fructose, starch, and maltodextrins, among others, that are marketed to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and other industries. The joint venture will be managed by a jointly appointed team of executives. Subject to the satisfaction of regulatory approvals and other closing conditions, the joint venture transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2021. See Note 14 of the Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information about this transaction.

In connection with its entry into the joint venture agreement, the Company classified the assets and liabilities to be transferred to the joint venture as held for sale in its Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for the six months ended June 30, 2021. Accordingly, the Company recorded those assets and liabilities at the estimated fair value, less estimated transaction costs, resulting in an impairment charge of $360 million, of which $311 million was related to the required valuation allowance of the cumulative translation losses associated with the contributed net assets and $49 million was related to the write-down of the contributed net assets to the agreed upon fair value. The non-cash impairment charge is subject to finalization based on the final transaction terms, ending balances and foreign exchange impacts at time of closing of the transaction. The Company recorded the impairment within Restructuring/impairment charges in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of (Loss) Income for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The held for sale assets and liabilities were classified within the Company’s South America reportable business segment.

The following table presents the major classes of assets and liabilities classified as held for sale for the joint venture agreement as of June 30, 2021. Assets classified as held for sale are included in Other assets and liabilities held for sale are included in Liabilities held for sale on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.



(in millions)		June 30, 2021
Cash and cash equivalents		$	2
Accounts receivable, net			29
Inventories			29
Prepaid expenses			1
Property, plant and equipment, net			58
Other assets			1
Impairment provision to record at fair value, less cost to sell			(49)
Assets held for sale		$	71

Accounts payable		$	18
Accrued liabilities			6
Impairment provision related to cumulative translation losses			311
Liabilities held for sale		$	335

During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company identified property, plant and equipment assets within the Stockton, California and Lane Cove, Australia locations that met the held for sale criteria totaling $8 million. During the six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company sold the Stockton, California land and building for $11 million, resulting in a gain of $5 million. The remaining assets held for sale as of June 30, 2021 were recorded at $2 million. The assets held for sale are reported within Other assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. A total of $73 million of assets held for sale, including the held for sale assets described above, are reported within Other assets as of June 30, 2021.

Restructuring Charges

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company recorded $4 million and $14 million of pre-tax restructuring related charges, respectively. For the three months ended June 30, 2021, the Company recorded $4 million of pre-tax restructuring related charges, consisting of employee-related and other costs, including professional services, associated with its Cost Smart SG&A program and $5 million of restructuring related charges primarily in North America as a part of its Cost Smart Cost of sales program. The Cost Smart Cost of sales program charges were offset by a $5 million gain on the sale of the Stockton, California land and building during the period.

For the six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company recorded $14 million of pre-tax restructuring related charges, consisting of $9 million of employee-related and other costs, including professional services, associated with its Cost Smart SG&A program and $8 million of restructuring related charges as part of its Cost Smart Cost of sales program, primarily in North America. The Cost Smart Cost of sales program charges were partly offset by a $5 million gain on the sale of the Stockton, California land and building during the period. The Company also recorded $2 million of acquisition charges related to the planned joint venture transaction.

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded a total of $11 million and $25 million of pre-tax restructuring and impairment charges, respectively, as part of the Cost Smart program. For the three months ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded $6 million of pre-tax restructuring charges for its Cost Smart Cost of sales program, including $3 million of asset write-offs and $1 million of other costs in relation to the closure of the Lane Cove, Australia production facility. During the three months ended June 30, 2020, the Company also recorded $1 million of accelerated depreciation and $1 million of employee-related severance, primarily in North America. For the six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded $15 million of pre-tax restructuring charges for its Cost Smart Cost of sales program, including $6 million of asset write-offs, $2 million of other costs, and $1 million of accelerated depreciation in relation to the closure of the Lane Cove, Australia production facility. During the six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company also recorded $4 million of accelerated depreciation, $1 million of employee-related severance, and $1 million of other costs, primarily in North America.

Additionally, the Company recorded pre-tax restructuring charges of $5 million and $10 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively, for its Cost Smart SG&A program. During the three months ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded $5 million of pre-tax restructuring charges, consisting primarily of other costs, including professional services, in North America. During the six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded pre-tax restructuring costs of $10 million primarily in North America, consisting of $8 million of other costs, including professional services, and $2 million of employee-related severance.

A summary of the Company’s employee-related severance accrual as of June 30, 2021 is as follows (in millions):


Balance in severance accrual as of December 31, 2020		$	12
Joint venture related			1
Cost Smart Cost of sales and SG&A			1
Payments made to terminated employees			(8)
Balance in severance accrual as of June 30, 2021		$	6

The entire $6 million severance accrual as of June 30, 2021 is expected to be paid in the next 12 months.